Editing Clotho (section)

=== The Ivory Shoulder ===
As one of the Three Fates, Clotho participated in creating the alphabet with Hermes, forced the goddess [[Aphrodite]] into making love with other gods, weakened the monster [[Typhon]] with poison fruit, persuaded Zeus to kill Asclepius with a bolt of lightning, and aided the deities in their war with the [[Giants (Greek mythology)|Giant]]s by killing Agrius and Thoas with bronze clubs.

Clotho also used her life-giving powers in the myth of [[Tantalus]], the man who had slain and prepared his son [[Pelops]] for a dinner party with the deities. When the deities had discovered what Tantalus had done, they put the remaining pieces of Pelops in a cauldron. Clotho brought him back to life, with the exception of a shoulder that had been eaten by [[Demeter]] and therefore, was replaced by a chunk of ivory. Clotho was worshiped in many places in Greece as one of the Three Fates and is sometimes associated with the Keres and Erinyes, which are other deity groups in Greek mythology.

[[Ariadne]] is similar to Clotho in that she carries a ball of thread, much like Clotho's spindle.